Match Safe: Museum Object and Cultural History
Match Safe: date made: ca 1906. advertiser: Kranz-Smith Piano Company. maker: Whitehead & Hoag Company.
The object in the museum catalogue
Metal match safe with hinged lid. The wrap-around plastic label shows an image of a Chickering grand piano on one side, and a Bradbury upright piano on the reverse. The match safe was an advertising piece for Kranz-Smith Piano Co. of Baltimore, Md.
Match safes were designed to hold friction matches. This one, made of metal covered with celluloid, has an image of a Chickering grand piano on one side, and a Bradbury upright on the other.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: ca 1906
- advertiser: Kranz-Smith Piano Company
- maker: Whitehead & Hoag Company
- Object Name: Match Safe
- Physical Description: cellulose nitrate (overall material)
- Physical Description: metal (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 1 cm x 7 cm x 3.7 cm; 3/8 in x 2 3/4 in x 1 7/16 in
- Measurements: overall: 7/16 in x 2 13/16 in x 1 1/2 in; 1.11125 cm x 7.14375 cm x 3.81 cm
- place made: United States: New Jersey, Newark
- ID Number: 2006.0098.0993
- accession number: 2006.0098
- catalog number: 2006.0098.0993
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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